Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-27
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mere " one pisa Iof pfDhiuftiOn tuAf Il
makes the iudioions friends Of Law and /
order and Temperance RrieVe. when
the history OF the world. the testimony /
Of all the able thinkers on political /
economy and social science, the aobr1k
sn experience OF old England and Nv
England have been cited 70 show that /
prohibition Is delusive aud vicious /
means 10 the end Of tn reduction Of /
intempersuce; when Christian ministers
Of bIameless life and she first order Of
intellect, and philanthFOpists OF tbs
broadest brains and largest experience,
all bear witness to the fatiliiy and coin
oidsnt corruption Of prohibition, the
BEST answer We get back IL from band
Of sentimental EeformsFs who rise up
and in dismal, wailing voices inquire,
where Is Ny Wandering Boy To
niRhtY' IL a second appeal 10 common
sense and the testimony of human ex
perienoe is made, the second pathetic
eonuBdEum is pr0pounded, Father,
Dear Father, Why don't You Come
Homer" These questions are Seriously /
put as something for the law 10 answer;
that IL, that IL my wandering boy" 10
where he ought not TO be and IN an in
soxieated condition, the Law was re-
spousible for the moral alterations Of
the boy; that is, II prohibition vas
once fairly placed IN the constitution |
and the laws the moral safety Of all |
wandering boys would be assured. The /
moral pitfalls and mantraps being theo-
retioally removed by prohibition, the |
wandering boy" would be forced to
wander home at night. and stay at |
home, because all ether places we're
shut up. The inquiry, Father, Dear
Father. Why Don't You Come Homer" |
is instinct with the same kind Of logic;
that is, that IL the dear father" don'I |
come home, or when he comes home IL |
decidedly the worse for liquor, the law |
Ia responsible for bis dismal condition;
that 10. II prohibition ves only once |
planted 10 the statute book, the dear |
father and dfunkard would be always |
at home, clothed In his right mind and |
q clean shirt, listening with an express |
sion of heavenly rapture on his face at |
bis wife and daughter warbligR, Drink |
To Me Only With Thine Eyes" TIE |
theory Of ali this talk about prohibition |
removing all the moral pitfalls aud |
mantraps that are set for "wandsrine |
boys" and for dear fathers that de- |
cline to come home until they are too |
dFunk TO DO eudured anywhere else Is |
absolutely absurd. In the first place |
prohibition don't stamp eat the sale of |
liquor; IL don't appFe siably decrease the |
number of places where Il can be bOugst; |
but even IL prohibition did nominally |
close all the open saloons, does any |
man OF practical observation OF the per
ishiDR incorporate classes OF society be- |
lieva that there would be any fewer AJAX
i01s mothers sadly wailinR, "Where l. |
my wandering bay tonight?' Or fewer |
sivss and daughters wondering why
father, dear father" didn't come
home? That IL, would a mere chang.
Of Law be the salvation Of vIgraBt boys? |
Would mere change OF law. change |
thriftlsss, tipping night hawk into |
quiet, home seeking father? mol A |
change of heart might do II, but q change |
Of Law never did IL aud never will do It. |
The iaw answers the implied reproaoh |
Of tae mother who asks IL, ~ here Il |
my wandering boy toBightp' by saying. |
The law don't know; 1t IL not the fuuc |
ton Of the Law or the Tightful business |
II the Law to know Shere your wander |
ing boy il or why he wanders until be |
Wanders outside OF the law and peace |
aus order OF the state. Then the Law |
will arrest yoar wandering boy and pun |
ish him, aud until the law u satisfied by |
bis punishment You will knoU without |
question where your wandering boy H. |
tonight. The Law cannot stand ~ locD |
parsasis 30 your wandering boy. IL he |
~ morally pervsrse or weak creature |
whom neither pAternal Admonitions |
and example. the voices OF s.lf respect |
4nd self iRterest, or tbs knowledge i'm |
parted In school and In chnrcn. can keep /
sober, then the law cannot be exp oted |
90 sober him, except 30 far as punish /
meat for the violation OF law, order and |
peace may serve 20 reform hin. Il il
not the business OF the Law and u Is not /
within the power Of the law, to stamp /
out all public sale 81 alcohol ia this /
world because your wandering bov u a /
drunkard. any more than Il IL fune
ton Of the Law or within the pnwer Of /
the Law 60 extlrpate hen-ronsts bee tuss /
YOUR wandering boy IL a chicken thief. /
or 90 kill all the pigs because Jews think /
Il Il q sin 10 eat pork. The thieves, |
large and small. that by thousands /
prey on society furnish more criminals /
90 eur prisons than alcohol; and yet /
thief is only = fellow Who abuses the i
appetite We call acquisitiveness, which /
IN honest hands moves aud adorns the /
world. The law Furnishes she thief for
the consequences Of his insane acqaisi-
tiveness, bat We do not burn up the /
bank the thief vas tempted O. rob; We /
do not destroy the legal opportunity 90 4
Acqulre property because somebody has 4
abused the universal passion OF aeQuisi-
tiveness illegally and immoraly 60 ae
quiFe property. And 50 the Law an
swers the. repFoaohful ipquiry OF the
Sailing sentimental refoEner IS 60 uhy /
father dout come home" The law
dont kn "; Il IL not It's business 10
knew, Rnless father" violates Lac.
order and peace. Thea the las answers
that father don't come home" because
be is in prison. A change Of law would |
not make father SO home nights, unless
70 VAS backed by q change Of heaTt. and
then there wuala be no need 90 change
The Law, and without a change af heart
u sould be no use 90 change &c. The
poet Whittier, always 4 total abstinence
man, says that he believes in putting
the blame 30 drunkenness where u be
longs, a. a that - uot on the manufae-
tareF OF seller. bng on the drinksr, and
n need be, have some stringent LAYS
for bis punishment Finally. what sort
% timber will the state % the future De
COMPOSED 81, u we aesept the coRcla
sloa that our boys, the future pillars Of
tho state, are 80 weak, 50 Wsllsss. OF
aaSa stAae4ta.- moral AMI spiritual force I
thai tAey cannot grow ap % a deceat
aad useful manhood unlsss vixen taev
valk aorcad they cannei fAoe a saloon
wiihaat npplinZ, 90 ether temptation
without ytelttlc O. ~ l. state wsrth
saving. can 8 state b. saved by ner.
whose ability o. 4alk usefnliy ana 10 I
rightly terms 90 TIRE qssstion sastaer
prohibition sna compulsory total Alb
silneScc anter law, rather than rs1ula-
uoa an 81 las. Was the rule vheu tsey
Nare beysf ihe ansuAl boy that - %
Ne slightest con~equrnce - the state
SEES Ia a dfunkeu tasn only an object
81 disSast % centrmpf; BE AGO tbAs
q = AsAiust isS. selg,tatarssi morality
and eogaraon 4sc.Rcy g. be a dFaSkar3
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MS ia gsttlnS 4rank = saejeci thai
the laS eaa panish bat cauuot save,
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